What Should You Do Today?

Like games?  Like hard games?  How about really frickin’ hard games where just about everything you do will cause you to die?  Then I have just the game for you today.

I Want to be the Guy! is a game hat pays homage to the old 2-D platforming style of video games, with a unique difficulty that will drive you insane.  Offering save points along the way was a must, but just getting to one of those save points itself will prove much more difficult than you would believe.

From the game’s web site ;

 I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The Guy. This inscrutable plot, however, is just a vehicle for a wide variety of inventive, well-designed and frustrating jump-and-shoot challenges that pay homage to many of the games you loved as a child. The ever-fragile Kid explodes in a shower of red pixels at the slightest brush from the game’s many obstacles, from traditional spikes and bottomless pits to more unconventional killers, such as plantlife and puzzle pieces.

 You’re probably sitting there thinking “How hard could it really be” or “They couldn’t possibly make death possible at every turn” right?  Wrong.

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 And you thought Mike Tyson was tough enough before, didn’t you?

Go ahead.  Give it a shot if you think you have what it takes to be the guy! Leave a comment to say how well you did, or didn’t do!

So here we are on January 7.  How are you doing on your New Years resolutions?  Did you make any or was your resolution to make resolutions?  The good news is, if you want to make new years resolutions it’s never too late.

Many people scoff at the idea of resolutions and there is a saying that the best resolution is to forget about resolutions.  I admit the premise is kind of strange.  Why people feel the need to change themselves when the calendar changes years makes sense in theory (new year, new you) but there has to be a way to keep track and monitor those resolutions.  How do you track them?  How will you stick to your resolutions?  For some it may be best to report back on your progress  once a month.

Write down your resolutions, or type them up in a computer file, and keep it somewhere safe.  Take them to heart and think about your strategies for fulfilling your resolutions.  It may take time to make some resolutions a habit.  At some given time I will call on you to check your resolutions in an attempt to remind you about them.  Let’s face it, many people forget about resolutions past January, right?

Popular resolutions include;

• Lose weight (get in shape)
• Quit smoking
• Save more money
• Eat healthier
• Quit drinking
• Get more organized
• Stay in contact with family and friends better
• Be a nicer person
•  Learn a new language

What are some of your resolutions for 2009?  I am asking for your’s so I will share some of mine as it pertains to this site.  Below are some of my resolutions for this blog in 2009…

•  Achieve a better design and layout
• Provide higher quality posts
• Build a community and readership
• Continue to learn new techniques and implement them

Consider this a belated happy new year to you and thank you for the positive response from yesterday’s post , which quickly became the featured post on Today.com ’s Philadelphia regional homepage .

I can not imagine what it must be like to be missing a dog, which is why I want to share this site with you.  I found it through one of my Facebook friends and feel it important to do what I can to spread the word.

Visit Help Find Rocky for the latest on the search for a missing Australian Cattle Dog in the Falls Church, Virginia area.  The dog has been missing since escaping his walker on January 3, 2009.  The blog that has been set up is the virtual headquarters for reporting sightings of the runaway dog and provides updates on the reported sightings, search party plans, and more.  You can even print out a flyer to post wherever you can.

If you are a Twitter user you can also follow the search by following @helpfindrocky .

I doubt that Rocky has made his way up to my area, but I will be following this dog search and hoping for the best!